Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• OPTION (TO BUY)
  
  Legal documents giving a purchaser the right to buy a property at a specific price and time. The purchaser may choose not to proceed with the purchase and only forfeits the option fee, which is usually less than 1 percent of the purchase price.
  
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